Covid-19

Looking back at data on UK Covid deaths over the past six months, the figures have remained relatively stable. Despite predictions of collapse, the NHS has coped and the difficulties…

In the timeless classic The Lord of the Rings, Frodo says to Gandalf “I wish it need not have happened in my time”, referring to the dire events transpiring all…

There are many legitimate concerns over big tech’s abuse of its monopolistic power, its overreach, and its attacks on freedom of speech and freedom of association. By allowing a company…

The news we were all waiting for last week: Grant Shapps announced that from August 2nd, except France, fully vaccinated people travelling from the US or EU would be free…

Grant Shapps, last week, has finally given the green light for double-jabbed Brits to enjoy their holidays without the need to quarantine upon returning to the UK, coinciding with the…

Why are we no longer the party of sound finances? It is irrefutable that we are coming to the end of the pandemic. More than 43 million people in the…

There is no such thing as freedom from risk. We live in a world full of hazards, big and small, and the risk which we are prepared to embrace at…

For the last 10 years, Brazil has been facing a tumultuous political situation. The discovery in 2013 of the corruption pioneered by the Brazilian Labour party, which was responsible for…

Health and freedom go together, and if the last fifteen months have taught us anything, it is that sacrificing one to preserve the other could leave us with neither.

Politicians tend to like their election campaigning to be as stage managed as possible: the reception Keir Starmer received from publican Rod Humphris earlier this week, for daring to enter…